Optimized Design of Combline Filters with Transmission Zeros

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how inline combline filters can be designed to implement transmission zeros in the filter transfer function. Following the design procedure described in this paper, up to N-1 transmission zeros can be implemented with a filter of order N. In addition to theory, comparisons between simulated and measured results are also presented. The agreement between simulation and measurements is indeed good, thereby fully validating the new combline filter topology, and the proposed design technique.

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